Mold Maker
MRI Tallahassee
We’re working with a trusted client that’s looking to hire their next Mold Maker. This company focuses on producing custom-engineered plastic components for a wide range of industries. They specialize in low-volume injection molding and handle everything from tool design to final production. For years, they’ve built a strong reputation as a reliable and valuable partner to customers across the United States. With natural growth affecting the state of their business, they’re looking to add an experience molding professional to their Tool Shop.
Summary:
The Mold Maker is responsible for supporting our customers by helping to troubleshoot, diagnose, and make repairs to injection molds. Aid in the mold design and building of new injection molds, fixtures, and other tooling-related items.
Responsibilities:
Job Responsibilities:
- Perform preventive maintenance and repairs on complex injection molding tools, ensuring optimal functionality and production uptime.
- Identify and troubleshoot mold issues, promptly implementing solutions to minimize production disruptions.
- Maintain accurate documentation of all mold maintenance and repair activities, including dates, procedures used, and materials consumed.
- Train and mentor junior mold makers, fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment.
- Must be organized with strong attention to detail and accuracy; working with tolerances of +/- .0005”
- Operational knowledge of tool room equipment including, but not limited to manual mills, lathes, surface grinders, CNC and EDM machines.
- Start-Finish of new tooling as well as repairs and modifications of existing tooling
- Be efficient and skilled in operating manual tool room machinery such as surface grinders, mills, lathes, tool grinders.
- Trouble shoot and repair hot runner systems
- Collection of data and use of data analysis to make fact based decisions
- Commitment to company values
Preferred Experience:
- Have a minimum of 5 years’ experience as a mold maker.
- Plastics/Molding experience
- Experience in the tool and die industry, preferably with precise, high-quality, injection molds.
- Experience with CNC machining and programming
- Qualified as a Journeyman Mold Maker.
- Have experience with fitting and benching of molds.